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Arts

Asked if he could tell Lobby which commemorative portraits or busts of the Prime Minister were on the way, the PMOS replied that he could not, but he would enquire.

Put to him that the Prime Minister in his speech this morning spoke about the CSR and made it quite clear that the Government would continue to support the arts, and did he further mean that spending money on the Olympics would not necessarily lead to a cut in the DCMS budget for the arts, the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister was responding to a fear expressed by arts organisations that having had good years under this Government, they might lose out in the future. The Prime Minister was trying reassure them that this was not the case. Another fear was that the Olympics would take money away from culture and arts, and again the Prime Minister was trying to reassure them. The other point made about the Olympics was that fundamentally the Olympics would be a celebration of precisely the diversity in this society that the arts cultivated. The arts had helped cultivate that diversity in a way that won the Olympics for London. Without this the Prime Minister believed we would have not achieved the Olympics.

Asked if they should interpret from the Prime Minister’s words that the Lottery fund would not be raided again for Olympic funding, the PMOS replied that it was best to wait and see until details on funding were announced.

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